WDYTYA? location guide: Lisa Hammond

Lisa Hammond is a lifelong Londoner who hates the country. Her quest to find out more about her ancestors on Who Do You Think You Are? led her all over the capital, but also, to her surprise, to the depths of rural Wales. Find out more about the locations she visited with this handy guide.

Lisa began her journey by tracing her grandfather at the Imperial War Museum

The Red Cross is one of the UK’s biggest charities, providing disaster assistance as well as First Aid training and social care support.

It was founded in 1870 helped victims of conflicts including the Franco-Prussian War, Boer War and First World War.

During the Second World War, Red Cross workers drove ambulances, helped family members trace missing servicemen and delivered food parcels to prisoners of war.

The British Red Cross Museum and Archives, which Lisa visited to find out more about Henry Hammond’s disappearance, holds extensive records of the charity’s work and is available to visit by appointment.

Lisa met historian Fiona Rule in The Prospect of Whitby, a historic pub located on the banks of the Thames in Wapping, near where Lisa’s dock worker ancestors lived.

It lays claim to being London’s oldest riverside tavern, with a public house on the site since the 1520s, and was once known as ‘The Devil’s Tavern’ because of its clientele of smugglers and cut-throats.

Judge Jeffreys, the ‘Hanging Judge’, drank there, and artists J.M.W Turner and James Whistler sketched view from the inn.

The current building is Grade II listed and has featured in TV programmes including Only Fools and Horses and Ripper Street.

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